Look at the position of his fingers in the previous panel. One of those is actually his thumb. He has a normal number of figures in the third panel, it’s just how he’s holding the rope with his thumb that makes it odd.

And now we get to watch some zombies buuuuurn. This is going to be excellent. I wonder if this was intentionally foreshadowed (he basically holds a fire in his hand in the monkey scene without even so much as complaining, among other things such as a fondness for thermite)

I’m also pretty sure he doesn’t get damaged by fire, Evilbober. That said, it’s possible he doesn’t have the power to breathe smoke, so he’d end up dead in a burning building regardless. Hope he doesn’t have to discover the whole smoke-breathing thing first hand, if that’s the case, eh?

Of course, this opens up a lot of interesting ideas for our friend. I wonder if he can immolate himself… and not be hurt? Remains to be seen.

Glad to see you’re doing well, David. I (well, we) don’t celebrate thanksgiving, but I hope you enjoyed it, at any rate. Holidays are always good, regardless of the reason!

Hmm… *thinks back to earlier in the comic when he was throwing fireballs at monkeys*
… kinda saw this coming… and is it just me, or does he sound a little excited in the last panel?
*prepares for maniacal laughter*

It depends on how you take the scene where he throws a burning tumbleweed down a hole with monkeys; if you consider that he likely lit it on fire, grabbed the non-burning end, and chucked it before he could actually -touch- the flames, AND that it was in the middle of a rage-moment, it’s likely that Laz didn’t really A, either think he SHOULD have gotten burned, or B, NOTICE that he was touching fire, or C, even, really, think at all about WTH he was ACTUALLY doing.

IIRC there was a period in Egypt when one of their train services fueled their steam locomotives with mummies instead of coal…. linen wrappings coated with resin would of course burn easily, and the rest had effectively zero water content…

Well, kind of proven AND subverted when you realize that Lilith is a nature demon… and then remember what Lilitu were said to do – fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, you name a natural disasster, they were responsible…

so um is it cuz it’s a fantasy universe that both he AND his clothes are flameproof? of course, that outfit wasn’t on him till he portal jumped the first time if i remember correctly, so maybe it’s magical

ya its kinda going to drop if there are so few updates saddly…its such a great comic too, can anyone tell me when this is sapposed to update regularly? and finaly what i think is the best phrase on this list is….KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!

The comic was supposed to update every tuesday and friday. This was dropped down to every friday as school and work caused the author to have less time to commit to the comic full time, in addition to family matters.

School Exam finals caused the comic to temporarily stop updating and a late Christmas break was called after several weeks of not updating, this comic isn’t dead so much as the author just doesn’t have the time right now, I imagine that he will have something up as soon as life and school calm down. Drawing, writing, and inking take a substantial amount of time to do, and having fully colored pages mean that updates may come in slower, especially if the artist has no help in inking/coloring the comic.

Just be patient, and understand that David does have a life, a family and other responsibilities, he will update this comic as soon as he is able to, I have faith in that fact.

Aw, thanks falkun. As he said, stuff has been a little out of hand lately. November was week long charity marathon immediately followed by finals followed by the holidays. Not too many people read during this time of the year so I want to get a buffer and start strong when Im able.

I really didn’t say anything that you haven’t said already, but your welcome anyways David. I know life can throw one curveball after another sometimes so feel free to get things under control before you head back into the webcomic,

I know how feeling rushed and pressed for time can make something fun into something that you just don’t want to deal with anymore, and I would hate for that to happen here, as underling is an awesome story and I would love to be able to see it to the ending as you’ve got thing building to quite the climax right now.

Thanks for the response! Feel free to build up a little buffer if you need, I’ll be sure to be back here by the 3rd (probably before, because it’s in my comic bookmarks folder, but now I’ll know to not freak out about updates for a while 😀 )

Rather than a weekly uptade, why not use the Praxis graphs; instead of having the x-axis as 24 hours, have it for the winter season, say Oct 1 to May 1 (we don’t usually have snow outside of those months). You could plot last year’s data as yesterday’s’ data, as well as add a third line for the 30 year average (might just be steps of monthly long term averages?). Then we could see this winter grow above (or below) the line and know exactly where we stand every 15 minutes! Oh the excitement.